[blindlaw] Update on Jaws and Track Changes

[tim at timeldermusic.com]

Track changes in newly created Word documents still work reliably in Office 2010 if using an older machine for this kind of task is an option.


-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Wolk <laura.wolk at gmail.com> 
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2018 11:22 AM
To: Blind Law Mailing List <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [blindlaw] Update on Jaws and Track Changes

I'm providing an update to this topic, as it generated a lot of traffic and I'd love to spare another lawyer the risk of relying on this $1,000 disappointment to his professional detriment.

Jaws still does not announce the correct number of revisions.
Instead, after taking up to 30 or 45 seconds sometimes, it will announce a much larger number that still isn't always accurate.  This is actually worse than when it simply said there were no revisions to display, since we all knew that was incorrect.  now it gives the false sense of security that you have, in fact, looked at every revision when there could be a hundred more that are not displaying that you haven't reviewed.  note that though this isn't a terrible inconvenience when you are integrating all changes into one draft from only one document, it is a huge problem if you are receiving multiple streams of edits from multiple sources that you are trying to accept/reject and then compile into one final draft.  So be forewarned, Jaws is sstill failing abysmally at providing us with the elementary tools needed in 2018 to maintain "Job access."